• KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    They got certification from the authorities, and in the event of an accident, the manufacturer takes on responsibility.

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      lol, ‘manufacturer takes on responsibility’ so… I’m just fucked if one of these hits me?

      see a mercedes, shoot a mercedes. destroy it in whatever way you can.

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        No you’re guaranteed that the Mercedes that hit you is better insured for paying out your damages than pretty much anyone else on the road that could hit you.

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          lol corporations don’t have responsibility though. that’s the whole point of them. they’re machines for avoiding responsibility.

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          The sad part of this is somehow thinking that payment solves any problem. Like, idk what they would pay me, just bring back my dead wife/child/father whatever. You can’t fix everything with money.

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            It only works on a small handful of freeways (read: no pedestrians) in California/Nevada, and only under 40 MPH. The odds of a crash within those parameters resulting in a fatality are quite low.

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            Human drivers are far more dangerous on the road, and you should be applauding assisted driving development.

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              This presumes the options are only:

              • Human and no autonomous system watching
              • Autonomous system, with no meaningful human attention

              Key word is ‘assisted’ driving. ADAS should roughly be a nice add, so long as human attention is policed. Ultimately, the ADAS systems are better able to react to some situations, but may utterly make some stupid calls in exceptional scenarios.

              Here, the bar of ‘no human paying attention at all’ is one I’m not entirely excited about celebrating. Of course the conditions are “daytime traffic jam only”, where risk is pretty small, you might have a fender bender, pedestrians are almost certainly not a possibility, and the conditions are supremely monotonous, which is a great area for ADAS but not a great area for bored humans.